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Re:Roman Finger Counting by dragonelite on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:27AM (#23190627)
Funny i just started reading(half way through, its a hard book to read) Micheal Hudson book "...And forgive them their debts" talks about bronze age economics etc and debt forgiveness and how their number base was usually taken for interests calculations.
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Re:Roman Finger Counting by WorldMaker on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:11PM (#23193833)
The Babylonian Base-60 also obviously survives in a lot of circle measurements: degrees, minutes:seconds. While the metric system has mostly moved on to radians, metric proponents (and esp. the French Revolution) failed to find a base-10 time system that people could agree on that matches the convenience of Base-60 minutes:seconds.
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